When HiBROW approached Dominic Hill, artistic director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, to serve as its first curator of theatre he explained that he had wanted to preserve the theatre's 50 year old international reputation as the champion of fresh contemporary playwriting.

When HiBROW approached Dominic Hill, artistic director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, to serve as its first curator of theatre he explained that he had wanted to preserve the theatre's 50 year old international reputation as the champion of fresh contemporary playwriting. To demonstrate that, he commissioned five leading British writers to write a half hour play which would unapologetically rely on text and be performed in what is now regarded as an established 'hybrid' platform for new plays: the 'staged reading'.Linda McClean's play 'This is Water' is the third such play to appear on HiBROW, following 'All is Vanity' and 'T5', which you can find elsewhere on the site. 'This is Water' is directed by Stewart Laing.

Here, HiBROW offers an exciting window on the rehearsal process with a split-screen presentation of a reading of the play.